The Truth About 'Free' Meeting Transcription Tools

Search 'free meeting transcription' and you'll find a lot of tools that are free in name only — they cap you at a few hundred minutes a month, or the free tier exists to funnel your data into a paid upsell.

The usual catches

• •Monthly minute limits that run out fast
• •Watermarked or truncated exports
• •Your recordings used to improve the vendor's models
• •A bot that needs access to your whole calendar

Genuinely free

Because ParleyNotes runs on your device, there's no server cost to recoup — so it's free for individuals with no minute caps and no data harvesting. The paid tiers are strictly for teams and companies that want collaboration, SSO and support.